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Software Update: FreeBSD 10.3

Apr

5

2016

Members of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has released the third update to version 10 of FreeBSD. FreeBSD was established in 1993 and is being developed as a whole, in contrast to Linux, the kernel is maintained by one group of developers and specific applications by others again. As a result, FreeBSD is generally considered to be more stable and more robust than a variety of other operating systems. Detailed release notes can on this page are found, these are in brief the major changes:

Some of the highlights:
The UEFI boot loader received several at improvements: It now follows / boot / config and /boot.config files, multi-device support boat works and command line arguments are parsed. Additionally, its framebuffer driver HAS BEEN enhanced with GOP (Graphics Output Protocol) and UGA (Universal Graphics Adapter) handling, allo wing to set the current graphics mode on systems using one or synthesis methods. More About, ZFS boot capability HAS BEEN added to the UEFI bootloader-including support for multiple ZFS Boot Environments (BES), eg Those provided by sysutils / beadm.
The CAM CTL Target Layer (4) now supports High Availability setups.
The Linux compatibility layer HAS BEEN Substantially improved and is now capable of running 64-bit applications on amd64 (x86_64), 1: 1 threading, and VDSO subset of the epoll (7) family sufficient is for the majority of programs.
The em (4) and igb (4) drivers have been updated to version 7.6.1 and 2.5.3 respectively. Among others, this brings support for I219 / I219 (2) / I219 (3) hardware found with Intel® Skylake generation and newer chipsets.
The isp (4) driver HAS BEEN updated and improved: It now ook supports 16 Gbps Fibre Channel adapters, has improved target mode support and completed Multi ID (NPIV) functionality.
The ixgbe (4) driver HAS BEEN updated to Intel FreeBSD Networking Group version 3.1.13-k and support for X552 and X550T was added.
The initial implementation or support reroots HAS HAS BEEN added to the reboot (8) utility, allo wing the root file system to be mounted from a temporary source file system without requiring a full system reboot.
The bsdinstall (8) utility HAS BEEN updated to allow for creating root-on-ZFS installations on UEFI-based systems in automatic mode.
The ifconfig (8) utility now reports SFP / SFP + optics module data When the -v flag is Specified and a NIC driver biedt Such information, ie for cxgbe (4), ixgbe (4) mlx5en (4) and sfxge (4) .
The jail (8) utility HAS BEEN updated to include a new flag, -l, All which Ensures a clean environment in the target jail. Additionally, jail (8) now runs a shell within the target jail by default When no command was’ve given.
The mkimg (1) utility HAS BEEN updated to support NTFS file systems in both GPT and MBR partitioning schemes.
The XZ (1) utility HAS BEEN updated to version 5.2.2-which biedt support for multi-threaded compression.
GNOME HAS BEEN updated to version 3.16.2.
TeXLive HAS BEEN updated to TL2015.
Xorg-server Has leg updated to version 1.17.4.
And much more …
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:
https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.3R/relnotes.html
https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.3R/errata.html
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